Flushing of the skin – normal or a symptom of the disease?

Skin flushing (redness in some areas) are always caused by excessive congestion of small blood vessels — capillaries. They fit close to the surface and through the translucent outer layer. Since the channel of the capillary has two knees (arterial and venous), and redness can be triggered by one of the types of vessels or to have mixed.

• long stay on his feet;
• obstructed flow in the "sedentary" profession;
• failure of the right heart;
• sudden increase of external pressure in the environment (descent into the water);
• straining with constipation;
• prolonged immobility;
• the loss of elastic properties of veins;
• thromboembolism at the level of major vessels.

On the regulation of vessel diameter is influenced by:

• hormonal shifts (paroxysmal flushing of the skin in women during menopause);
• focal innervation, paresis and paralysis when injuries and brain lesions;
• systemic lesions of connective tissue of vascular walls when lupus, scleroderma, the skin hyperemia has a characteristic shape of a butterfly and localization on the cheeks, nose and forehead.

The local hyperemia of skin can be seen over inflamed joints of the hands and feet arthritis, arthritis, rheumatic and rheumatoid lesion. Here the redness is not spreading to other areas, and clearly indicates a hearth.

In the diagnosis of complicated varicose veins veins has a value detected thrombophlebitis. Have to change the treatment, prescribe antimicrobials. But the appearance of such symptom in the postoperative period is regarded as a serious complication. Therefore, the attention of surgeons always turned on inspection of the skin of the Shin and feet.

Babies grudnichkovye age redness develops in the area of skin folds between the buttocks. Pediatricians teach mothers the care of children, because it may be associated with the sweating sickness, lack the necessary gentle handling of the skin, daily water treatments.